ATI Radeon HD 4800 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200

May 16 2008, 1:20am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

June will apparently see another showdown of new graphics cards from NVIDIA and ATI.

AMD's ATI will push out the ATI Radeon 4800 series apparently featuring some hardware physics engine.
The ATI Radeon will come as 4850, 4870, and 4870 X2. The 4870 slated for end of June actually sports DDR5 memory. The 4870 is supposed to have the same performance as a dual-GPU 3870 X2.TG Daily obtained lots of leaked ATI 4800 details.
NVIDIA is rumored to launch the GeForce GTX 200 cards in the same June time frame.
The NVIDIA GTX 200 cards are featuring a 2nd generation Unified Shader architecture. The first cards include the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280.
See also Digitimes.

where to buy

Buy from Amazon

Don't miss ...

Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com. Luigi posts regularly on LuigiMe.com about his experience running I4U.